On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Ryan Lane rl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
A very small minority of users don't have HTTPS
support, or their computers are so old that it makes the site unusably
slow. That's a *very* small percentage of users, though.
There's also the small issue of a billion people
This response seems to miss the fact that, in this particular case,
censorship is being accomplished through eavesdropping.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi all,
I wanted to share a clarifying email from Ryan Lane in WMF Ops. He's
working through the
What is this hard-enabled and soft-enabled? If the Chinese volunteer
editor community requests that HTTPS be soft-enabled for them, and you do
so, does that solve anything?
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We've also hard-enabled HTTPS on all of our
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said they
will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or in
what format.
This is the content of our response:
The Wikimedia
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
What is this hard-enabled and soft-enabled?
I hope someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but...
I believe that soft-enabled means that https was set as the protocol
in the canonical URLs for uzwiki. So search engines should
Hi,
Since 31 May, China's Great Firewall has blocked the HTTPS connection to all
language versions of Wikipedia, by blocking port 443 on two of our IPs. I was
also told that service to Wikimedia Commons may be affected. Other projects,
such as en.wikisource are not affected by this block (but
We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said they
will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or in
what format.
This is the content of our response:
The Wikimedia Foundation doesn’t hold any readers of our projects in any
less regard than others.
On 8 Jun, 2013, at 12:24 AM, Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org wrote:
We have had contact with the authors of the blog and they have said they
will publish our response to their article, though I'm not sure when or in
what format.
Great. That's really fast response.
On the issue itself, we
Hi all,
I wanted to share a clarifying email from Ryan Lane in WMF Ops. He's
working through the challenges of HTTPS from the Foundation's end.
Please see below for more details:
-Matthew
On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Ryan Lane rl...@wikimedia.org wrote:
How does it impact people? Short
